<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div> 4th International Workshop on Computational Terminology</div><div> CompuTerm 2014</div>
<div><br></div><div> COLING 2014 Workshop</div><div> 23rd August 2014, Dublin, Ireland</div><div> <a href="http://perso.limsi.fr/hamon/Computerm2014/">http://perso.limsi.fr/hamon/Computerm2014/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Submission deadine: 2nd May 2014</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Computational Terminology covers an increasingly important aspect in</div><div>Natural Language Processing areas such as text mining, information</div>
<div>retrieval, information extraction, summarisation, textual entailment,</div><div>document management systems, question-answering systems, ontology</div><div>building, etc. Terminological information is paramount for knowledge</div>
<div>mining from texts for scientific discovery and competitive</div><div>intelligence. Scientific needs in fast growing domains (such as</div><div>biomedicine, chemistry and ecology) and the overwhelming amount of</div>
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textual data published daily demand that terminology is acquired and</div><div>managed systematically and automatically; while in well established</div><div>domains (such as law, economy, banking and music) the demand is on</div>
<div>fine-grained analyses of documents for knowledge description and</div><div>acquisition. Moreover, capturing new concepts leads to the acquisition</div><div>and management of new knowledge.</div><div><br></div><div>The aim of this fourth CompuTerm workshop is to bring together Natural</div>
<div>Language Processing researchers to discuss recent advances in</div><div>computational terminology and its impact in many NLP applications. The</div><div>topics addressed in this workshop are wide ranging:</div><div>
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</div><div>- term extraction, recognition and filtering, which is the core</div><div> of the terminological activity that lays basis for other</div><div> terminological topics and tasks;</div><div><br></div><div>- event recognition and extraction, that extends the notion of the</div>
<div> terminological entity from terms meaning static units up to terms</div><div> meaning procedural and dynamic processes;</div><div><br></div><div>- acquisition of semantic relations among terms, which is also an</div>
<div> important research topic as the acquisition of semantic</div><div> relationships between terms finds applications such as the</div><div> population and update of existing knowledge bases, definition</div><div> of domain specific templates in information extraction and</div>
<div> disambiguation of terms;</div><div><br></div><div>- term variation management, that helps to deal with the dynamic</div><div> nature of terms, their acquisition from heterogeneous sources, their</div><div> integration, standardisation and representation for a large range of</div>
<div> applications and resources, is also increasingly important, as one</div><div> has to address this research problem when working with various</div><div> controlled vocabularies, thesauri, ontologies and textual data. Term</div>
<div> variation is also related to their paraphrases and reformulations,</div><div> due to historical, regional, local or personal issues. Besides, the</div><div> discovery of synonym terms or term clusters is equally</div>
<div> beneficial to many NLP applications;</div><div><br></div><div>- definition acquisition, that covers important research and</div><div> aims to provide precise and nonambiguous description of</div><div> terminological entities. Such definitions may contain</div>
<div> elements necessary for the formal description of terms and concepts</div><div> within ontologies;</div><div><br></div><div>- consideration of the user expertise, that is becoming a new issue in</div><div> the terminological activity, takes into account the fact that</div>
<div> specialized domains contain notions and terms often</div><div> nonunderstandable to non-experts or to laymen (such as patients</div><div> within the medical area, or bank clients within banking and economy</div>
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areas). This aspect, although related to specialized areas, provides</div><div> direct link between specialized languages and general language;</div><div><br></div><div>- systematic terminology management and updating domain specific</div>
<div> dictionaries and thesauri, that are important aspects for</div><div> maintaining the existing terminological resources. These aspects</div><div> become crucial because the amount of the existing terminological</div>
<div> resources is constantly increasing and because their perennial and</div><div> efficient use depends on their maintenance and updating, while</div><div> their re-acquisition is costly and often non-reproducible;</div>
<div><br></div><div>- monolingual and multilingual resources, that open the possibility</div><div> for developing cross-lingual and multi-lingual applications,</div><div> requires specific corpora, methods and tools which design and</div>
<div> evaluation are challenging issues;</div><div><br></div><div>- robustness and portability of methods, which allows to apply methods</div><div> developed in one given context to other contexts (corpora, domains,</div>
<div> languages, etc.) and to share the research expertise among them;</div><div><br></div><div>- social netwoks and modern media processing, that attracts an</div><div> increasing number of researchers and that provides challenging</div>
<div> material to be processed;</div><div><br></div><div>- utilization of terminologies in various NLP applications, as they</div><div> are a necessary component of any NLP system dealing with</div><div> domain-specific literature, is another novel and challenging</div>
<div> research direction.</div><div><br></div><div>The workshop submissions are open to different approaches, ranging</div><div>from term extraction in various languages (using verb co-occurrence,</div><div>information theoretic approaches, machine learning, etc.), translation</div>
<div>pairs extracting from bilingual corpora based on terminology, up to</div><div>semantic oriented approaches and theoretical aspects of terminology.</div><div>Besides, experiments on the evaluation of terminological methods and</div>
<div>tools are also encouraged since they provide interesting and useful</div><div>proof about the utility of terminological resources:</div><div><br></div><div>- direct evaluation may concern the efficiency of the</div>
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terminological methods and tools to capture the terminological</div><div> entities and relations, as well as various kinds of related</div><div> information;</div><div><br></div><div>- indirect evaluation may concern the use of terminological resources</div>
<div> in various NLP applications and the impact these resources have on</div><div> the performance of the automatic systems. In this case, research and</div><div> competition tracks (such as TREC, BioCreative, CLEF, CLEF-eHealth,</div>
<div> I2B2, *SEM, and other shared tasks), provide particularly fruitful</div><div> evaluation contexts and proved very successful in identifying key</div><div> problems in terminology such as term variation and ambiguity.</div>
<div><br></div><div>We encourage authors to submit their research work related to various</div><div>aspects of computational terminology, such as mentioned in this</div><div>call. The workshop authors will be proposed to submit an extented</div>
<div>version of their work to a special issue of an international journal</div><div>or of a book collection.</div><div><br></div><div>Importante dates:</div><div><br></div><div>- 1st workshop CFP: 17th February 2014</div>
<div>- Paper due date: 2nd May 2014</div><div>- Notification of acceptance: 6th June 2014</div><div>- Camera-ready deadline: 27th June 2014</div><div>- Workshop: 23rd August 2014</div><div><br></div><div>Submission instructions:</div>
<div><br></div><div>Authors are invited to submit full papers on original, unpublished</div><div>work in the topic area of this workshop.</div><div><br></div><div>Submissions should follow the COLING 2014 instruction for authors</div>
<div>(<a href="http://www.coling-2014.org/call-for-papers.php">http://www.coling-2014.org/call-for-papers.php</a>) and be formatted</div><div>using the COLING 2014 stylefiles for latex, MS Word or LibreOffice</div><div>(<a href="http://www.coling-2014.org/doc/coling2014.zip">http://www.coling-2014.org/doc/coling2014.zip</a>), with blind review and</div>
<div>not exceeding 8 pages plus two extra pages for references.</div><div><br></div><div>The PDF files will be submitted electronically at</div><div><a href="https://www.softconf.com/coling2014/WS-9/">https://www.softconf.com/coling2014/WS-9/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Organisers:</div><div><br></div><div>- Patrick Drouin, Observatoire de linguistique Sens-Texte, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada</div><div>- Natalia Grabar, CNRS UMR 8163 STL, Université Lille 1&3, Villeneuve d'Ascq</div>
<div>- Thierry Hamon, LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France & Université Paris 13, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Villetaneuse, France</div><div>- Kyo Kageura, Library and Information Science Laboratory, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Program Committee</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>- Sophia Ananiadou, University of Manchester, National Centre for Text Mining, UK</div><div>- Olivier Bodenreider, NLM, USA</div>
<div>- Beatrice Daille, IRIN, France</div><div>- Éric Gaussier, LIG, Université Joseph Fourier, France</div><div>- Gregory Grefenstette, Clairvoyance Corp, France</div><div>- Marie-Claude L'Homme, University of Montréal, Canada</div>
<div>- Philippe Langlais, RALI, Canada</div><div>- John McNaught, UMIST & National Centre for Text Mining, UK</div><div>- Rogelio Nazar, University Pompeu Fabra, Spain</div><div>- Goran Nenadic, University of Manchester, UK</div>
<div>- Jorge Vivaldi Palatresi, University Pompeu Fabra, Spain</div><div>- Selja Seppälä, University at Buffalo, USA</div><div>- Karine Verspoor, NICTA, Australia</div><div>- Pierre Zweigenbaum, LIMSI, France</div><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------</div>
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